Maldo to attend GOP fundraiser with Breitbart — and is ready to give him the what-for

For years — even as we knocked down a beer with him at a recent GOP convention — Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado has talked about how he’s a moderate Republican. You know, post-partisan and all that.

And that’s why Dems are going nuts with word that Abel will be sharing the bill at a GOP fundraiser next month with Andrew Breitbart — aka the conservative media titan whose site presented the world with the creative editing of comments made by former Ag Dept. employee Shirley Sherrod.

Hey, we’re eternally grateful to Breitbart for giving us a ride to a Tea Party event in Nevada a few months ago (check the video of THAT ride here). There — and at the CA GOP convention last fall — the guy gets standing ovations and a hero’s welcome.

But sharing a bill with him is not exactly a come-hither to the decline-to-state voters and moderates that Maldo needs to score to take down SF Mayor Gavin Newsom in the CA Lite Gov race.

Team Maldo, what’s up?

“We were going to the function. We didn’t even know this guy was invited,” Team Maldo spokesperson Brandon Gesicki told us. The GOP event is a “stop-by” for Maldo that night, he said.

“But if we run into (Breitbart) we’ll tell him what we think of what he did to that woman (Sherrod),” Gesicki said. Nope, Maldo did not think it was cool.